Recently, my friend told me she would be taking next semester off. Not because she could not afford it, but because it was too much stress. This friend has been dreaming to be a lawyer for a long time, in her second year of college, she is far from law school.
Taking time off. Can it be helpful? Or is it a sign that maybe you are not cut out for a job as intense as a lawyer's? I'm honestly curious. College, compared to the "real world," to me, seems like a break in itself. An investment of youth in exchange for an economically easier future.
On the other hand, maybe people sometimes need to slow down and breathe before finishing their academic marathons. I mean, people who finish college are in it for 17 years plus pre school. Maybe these people come back refreshed, rejuvenated and ready to work.
Perhaps it's my skeptical nature, but working 50 hours per week at Taco Bell to pay rent/gas/insurance/electric is not a "break" or any less stressful, it's a new, different stress that has no investment in a degree-required career.
I'd love to get comments on this. Has it worked? Does it? Do people come back, and if they do, is it the same? My curiosity has stemmed me to assign this topic for a news story in the paper next semester.
But for now, I'm on break.
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